445, Lot: 452. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.38 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. Draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls on top of her head / Aeternitas seated left, holding Phoenix nimbate on globe and scepter. RIC III 1103A; Banti 7 var. (obv. legend placement). VF, brown and green patina.

Ex Brian Bolton Collection; Noble 95 (23 November 2010), lot 5536; Cappenalle Collection; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Triton III, 30 November 1999), lot 1709 (part of), purchased from Hesperia Art in 1962.